Grant for museum initiatives

Skidmore has received a three-year, $350,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to integrate museum exhibitions and curricular innovation.
The Object, Exhibition, and Knowledge program will include speakers, workshops, collaborative research, and student internships, as well as a distinguished visiting fellow headquartered at Skidmores Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. President Jamienne S. Studley says the grant will foster intense and experimental interdisciplinary work in object-based learning and will make the Tang as central to academic inquiry as the library, the laboratory, the seminar room, and the studio. According to Susan Bender, associate dean of the faculty, Skidmore is one of a select few U.S. colleges pioneering this kind of museum-linked interdisciplinary education. AW, SR